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...fans express themselves in fiery terms: hundreds of candles twinkle in the stands when they are happy, bonfires rage in the concrete bleachers when they are mad. In the Dominican Republic, they swarm onto the field in such purposeful rage that offending umpires have fled in the police paddy wagon. In Cuba, they salute a good play by spraying spectators across the diamond with a fusillade of Roman candles...
...hair might mat). She stoked him on chopped steak laced with wheat germ, brushed his flowing reddish hair from two to nine hours a day. For eleven months a year, Gossie spent much of his time in a traveling case in the back of Clara's Dodge station wagon as she barnstormed from one city to another on the show-dog circuit. Nights, she pulled into a motel, set up a 6-ft. pen, and turned Gossie loose for his exercise, after carefully choosing a smooth stretch of lawn with no twigs or briars that might snag his coat...
Stay Back. It was just the sort of thing the headstrong Iraqi like, and Kassem himself could use a boost to his sagging popularity. Since the attempt on his life, he no longer cruises about in his old Chevrolet station wagon; he now rides in a bulletproof ZIM. His public appearances are limited to ten minutes each, and no stranger is allowed within 20 yards of him. In Baghdad, for the first time, there is even an occasional wisecrack about...
...entered Oxford as an engineering major. Young Norway was an indifferent student but a line engineer; in 1923 the fledgling aircraft firm of de Havilland signed him on as a junior designer at ?5 a week. The same year he soloed. At the Stag Lane Aerodrome, a crash wagon stood by with an 18-ft. hook, to show the inexperienced pilot "that his friends had it ready to assist him in any difficulty that might arise." Pilot Norway did not crash, then or ever...
...four-door Falcon station wagons which, with the second seat folded down, will provide almost as much luggage space as the 1957 regular Ford station wagon. Price: about $300 above the Tudor and Fordor Falcon sedans...